The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Where is the culture of cleanliness?

When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

...others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice.

Every heart has its own melody.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

Something lurked inside the truth.

Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S.

A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.