The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

My heart is filled with endless praise.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people.

Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

Rather fast then surfette, rather starue then striue to exceede.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

Only the dead know the truth.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.