All life is only allegory and the real story is not here...

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Remove this quote from your collection“Humans are born to build something outrageous.

Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Nowadays, all the people who are major are just DJs. The lighting and all that makes the show - without all of that stuff, it's just a person behind a laptop. With me, though, it's an actual show.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Music became a healer for me.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.