Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Thought is free.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.