In fact living is dying.

The only certainty is death.

Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful.

Fiction is an improvement on life

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his many incarnations. Because you deserve to know.

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.

There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.