The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.