Marcel Proust

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

No American ought to be compelled to strike for his rights. He ought to receive them naturally, easily, as a matter of course.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possesion, a duty.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.