But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.