Marcel Proust

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I apologize when I’m wrong.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

We want to reproduce all those instruments which were prepared and used in America once upon a time.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.