Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

I love playing real characters... if they're not around anymore it's helpful because you won't get sued! But there's so much research involved and I love that part of the process.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

Of course we all know that's not how life works. The novel that is our life can end at any time. Sometimes even on page one.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.