Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Life is not a problem to be solved. It is an opportunity to love and unfold the beauty of life.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

You never fight your eye when you look at a hole. If it looks one way, play it that way. Don't make a big deal out of an easy shot.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.