A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.