A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

They will never count me among the broken men.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

I love going to weddings.