...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

So, Sheriff, " she said. "How do you feel about a life of crime?

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It's really just each person's personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.