It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

You can't be in my world...You live in this one.

The invisible world!

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

A ship in harbour is safe, but it's not fulfilling its potential

Where the mind goes, everything follows.