It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

in this room the hours of love still make shadows.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.

Everything in life influences my music.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.