War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

Life has everything in it. But you only see what your perception allow you to see

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Their ages are 17. They give them pills at night, they put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.

Some things were beyond understanding.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.