Bad friends say nice things to your face, and then turn around and paint you black.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.
How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.