Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.