Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

A man of courage must first conquer himself.

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Some things have eternal value, and compassion is one of them. I hope we never lose that. Compassion for humans as well as animals.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

I'd rather violate every one of the damn conventions and see my bills passed, than sit back in my office, all nice and proper, and watch 'em die.

We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within.

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.