All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.
