Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what’s going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
You have to know how to defend yourself.
What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but they happen all of the time.
Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?
We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Awareness without action is worthless.
