I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.