Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

Are you sure you have enough sweetener in that? I could offer to conscript the rest of the cubes from the galley for you.

Go make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again