We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.

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.

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home.

Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Hard work's a good distraction.