Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.