A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

Rangers are definitely on the back heel now

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

I don't think sleeping with you is going to solve anything," she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door. "I don't really care what you think.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.