Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

God’s approval should be your standard for success.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love

I got the idea she'd done her makeup up special for this. Not that she needed much. She was utterly and completely beautiful, except for the hate shining in her eyes.

I'm not at all sure that the concept of the readymade isn't the most important single idea to come out of my work.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.