People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system.