Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.