Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.

That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

What we need is a generation of peace.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.