All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

If elected, I will win.

The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.