"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders."

"The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

"In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice."

"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

"Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get."