Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
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.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
