Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

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.

The Inner Self...What makes us who we areshould be glorifiedpersonifiedand sung unto the stars!

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.