Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

I think that kids are a wonderful, wonderful reader to have in your head.

There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.

I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

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