There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.