No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

There's nothing like success.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Open your heart. Don't be spiteful.