Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.

Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

Division isn't just a math's problem.It's also humanities!

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

I only have one why, and my challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.