... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.

Chocolate is an excellent flavor for ice cream but both unreasonable and disconcerting in chewing gum.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout!

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

It’s a basic rule of humor that a joke is always at somebody’s expense. Really good jokes, however, tend to be at everyone’s expense.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.