Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

You were almost like a haiku: said so little, but meant so much.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

Sound waves do not die out. They travel forever and forever. All our sentences are immortal. Our useless bleatings circle the universe for all eternity.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.