“Read in order to live.”

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

One’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M’s in alphabetical order.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.