Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
