To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.

It's emotions. Sometimes you feel, sometimes you don't. You can't force yourself into feeling something, can you?

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

Shut up, sod off, and let me in. (Fury)

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.