Sleep is death enjoyed.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

Marco could not have known about the mystical effect of a full moon on cats and books left on their own in the library. Not until he saw the lines breathe, the words unveiled.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

I grew up in the suburbs.