I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment.

This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I'll commend them for truth in advertising.