There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.