I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

The ocean has limits, but true love does not.

The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!