Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.

With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.