Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

I love the mystery behind things.

Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.