we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The mind I love must have wild places.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.