You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was born in the age of "alas".

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.