The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.