Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

Death means nothing to us

An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.

The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

No one likes anyone in the industry

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.