My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.

He wanted one night with her when he did not have to be on his guard waiting for the Douglases to discover that she was English and a lass

Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.