Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Common sense is not so common.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

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

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.