There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
The first requisite for immortality is death.
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
