I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

What you consider as real may not exist at all, and what you cannot see today may turn out to be the purpose of your life one day.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.