Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that’s formalism.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

Memory belongs to the imagination.

Deux me' tresou un peu plusse parent donc l'homme de la femme. Two metres, or a little more, separates a man from a woman.

On n'e chappe pas a' son sort. One cannot escape destiny.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.

I have a really good life and I really like it.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

The hand of Providence creeps among the stars, giving Slothrop the finger.