Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve it.

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

All bookshelves are magical.