A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

Your enemies could dig a grave for your destiny, but only you could through it in it.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

I see people driving cars, winding down the streets. I don't know where these people think they're going. They're going to the funeral home; that's about it.

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.