Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.
To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.
Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.
Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.
Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.
If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.
When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.
Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.
Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.
Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.
Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
The Media: bold sex and violence, timid politics and morals.
Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
The eye deals with excess more easily than the stomach does.
Most people find just being themselves not enough of a show.
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.
Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Blonds look angelic, but can (oh, happy!) be fleshy as well.
When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.