The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.

He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, he will use your weakness against you

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.