In those days, there was no money to buy books.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

When you look back, most days in life seem ordinary, but there are some that change your life forever and remain etched in your memory.

I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.