And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

Praying is holy act.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Sleep has no place it can call its own.

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.