The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

NOW is the most abundant moment of your life.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.