I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The Future is hidden even from those who are forging it.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.