And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

The sad truth of the matter is that when it comes to appearance, we start off with men as the standard, the norm.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.