One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

... uncritical love is the only real treasure.

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?