We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.

She was alone.She missed him immediately.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

I know in the heat of battle, it's hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.