Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Your attitude is your greatest capital in life.

Not kill us, " Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

It's good to be anywhere.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

I always preferred having wings to having things.

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.