With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.