Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Life Without Love Like Body without Soul

The bad thing about the Bushwhackers is that win, lose, or draw, you gotta have everything you got on fumigated.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

Different isn't bad, it's just different.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.