There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.

I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends

The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.