Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.

Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.