The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Nothing is black or white.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.