The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

The stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

A cowboy is a hired hand on the middle of a horse contemplating the hind end of a cow.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

I hate this guy,” Ari muttered, keeping his head down “There’s a club,” I told him. “The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!