Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?

Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry

Things that are easy to do, are easy not to do.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Wolves have no kings.

If you’re trying to Seduce me, Vane, you’re a bit late. At his point I’m pretty much a sure thing for you.