Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

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

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

It's just much easier with dogs. You don't get laid

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

Although I really like the people I travel with, family is just different, and having them around at all times is a really nice thing - and a luxury.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.