There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

I love how, whenever you tell me a story, you go backwards and forwards and tell me everything else that could possibly be happening in every direction, like an explosion. Like a flower blooming.

You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

Women's style is so hard for me. I just know what I think looks good.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.