You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.

A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.