Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”

“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”

"Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others’ experience."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

“You can’t create experience, you undergo it.”

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel” 

“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. ” 

First you learn humility, then you experience glory.