With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.