If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

All writing is filth

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person.

I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.