Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

The important things are always simple.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

The chiefe boxe of health is time.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.