Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.