A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out |
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study |
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. |
A man is only as good as what he loves |
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. |
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. |
Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. |
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. |
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. |
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. |
Conquered people tend to be witty. |
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining. |
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. |
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. |
Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. |