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

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

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

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

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.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.