Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.