Love affairs are for emotional sprinters the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.