I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

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.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

A goddess of dawnscooted under a zing of barbed wireto witness your birth.

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice

I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.