Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

Solitude awakes the soul to spiritual realms.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Yes, " he said sincerely. "Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.