A fool can throw a stone in a pond that a 100 wise men can’t get out.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Fiction is the higher autobiography.

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands— someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm … an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.