... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

When we make the decisions to be and stay in love, we should also make a decision and commitment to be supportive.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Nobody ever learns anything.

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.