Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

Expose yourself as you are without trying to be someone else.

Your world is one of cause and effect.