Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.' 'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

I wonder if it's medically possible to be addicted to another human being.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

I don't really watch movies at all. I don't even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I've seen that, but I definitely don't have a favorite.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

A life without criticism is not worth living.