His wings were failing, but he refused to fall without a struggle.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.