Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

Probably you are right, probably not... who knows?

Nothing happens til something moves.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.