The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well