No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

If you don’t know how to use an object properly, it is possible that you will use it for something other than the purpose it was intended for

Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!

If you are focused on God, then all “mountains” are under your feet.

The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

I think there's no question Comey abused power.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.