Strange & Unusual Sayings

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I’m not a writer who writes. I’m a writer who reads.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm –

I'm a believer in the literal word. I think it's the literal word that counts.

The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starvation, but to demonstrate his wealth and the greatness of his name.