I find myself fascinating.

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas