I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

When you stop your thoughts, you stop the world.

He that riseth first, is first drest.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]

If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.

I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.