With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

If you are healthy, be happy.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

...others, with halos shaped like rollercoasters you'd stand in line to ride twice.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

My weekends are extremely precious.