The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

No matter what situations you experience in life, think about them as you draw conclusions about what the situations means for you

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!

We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.