The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain alive.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.

I'm not a big comic fan and I'm not a big fan of comic movies.

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

Our country is being run by incompetent people.

There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.