How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Genius is sorrow's child.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.