He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites and escapes.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.

I saw my life flash before my eyes. It looked a lot like a Chihuahua with a severe overbite.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

I lived in Brooklyn for a year and I moved out to Rockaway Beach. I've been living here for two years now. I put my address on the album, so I have a lot of visitors all the time.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Every other start-up wants to be another United or Delta or American. We just want to get rich.