Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Do not ever fear your enemies, who attack you relentlessly, But do ever be afraid of the friends who flatter you habitually.[231] - 4 (Thoughts)

Imagining a virtual mentor evokes a genuine feeling of being supported and loved.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.

Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.