Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

After every war someone has to tidy up.

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.