He that discovers and defines law is law abiding

The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

Every sexual sin begins with flattery.

I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like...

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.

the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duelist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six-inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale....

After supper they saw Kaluka to the boardwalk, and then strolled back along the beach to Asbury. The evening sea was a new sensation, for all its color and mellow age was gone, and it seemed the bleak...

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed ou...

That sure as fuck ain't no cow

When finally substantiated by scientific means, such a view will allow an individual to see his place in the world with greater clarity-- how he came from the world and how he may contribute to his fe...

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?