“The best writing is certainly when you are in love.”

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

All thinking men are atheists.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

No one you love is ever truly lost.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Any man’s life, told truly, is a novel.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Work could cure almost anything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.

They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

You know, I think there are certain words like ‘illegitimate’ that should not be used to describe a person.

We may think that we love certain people, but we don’t know how profoundly we love them.

Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward.

Maybe [success] is because I’m in China and I’m more open. Maybe it’s my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.