All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent, It only can be squandered.

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges.

To overcome the sadness of our hearts, we must remember the joys of our lives.

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.