Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father."- Nell

A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

The world treats beautiful people like they're good at something, which makes it so that they almost never get good at something.

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.