No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

What you have to do, you do with play. The universe is God’s play.

Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.