I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
Things explain each other, not themselves.
Reading brings us unknown friends.
I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
We live on the leash of our senses.
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
