The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code.

You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.