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I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.
Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?
Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
Art knows neither doctrine nor idea; its nature is to show.
Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.
The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.
Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.
Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them.
The people who influence you are people who believe in you.
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.
Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day.
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.
The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.
Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.
Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.
If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.
He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.
I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.