Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

The comeback need to always be more effective than the downfall!

I am ashes where once I was fire...

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Check it out, forgot to say hello to my neighbors. Check it out, sometimes I question my own behavior.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.