Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

The less you know, the more you believe.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.