“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.”

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”