each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

When you shut out the universe around you. You inadvertently become the very universe that you were trying to shut out.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.