Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-'Rhett

What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!

The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.

Knowing what’s right isn’t as important as doing what’s right.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.