This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

The future is the shape of things to come.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.