It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

Unless and until you give happiness to others you truly cannot be happy.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

There are different ways to raise capital that were not available when I was growing my business.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

The most important thing is, when I do give the music, I'm satisfied with it, that it speaks for what I want to do.