Respectable people... What bastards!

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Write what you want to write. That's the only advice a writer will ever need.

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone

That girl can barely spell her name.