Most real relationships are involuntary.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish.

...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

You drank my blood." With one arched brow, Rachel seared Rees with her stare."Yes, but only because he commanded it.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

I think we're conditioned by watching movies.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

To each man at his birth nature has given some fault.

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.