You can put anything into words, except your own life.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

There is no art without Eros.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I have no words for my reality.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.