It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.

what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.

When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away.

Only fools prefer the past!

We shall live to fight again and to strike another blow.

Start small and with your own money.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Stories are the shortcut to the heart.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.