As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

Q: Prove God doesn’t exist. A: That’s a tough one. Show me how it’s done by proving Zeus and Apollo don’t exist, and I’ll use your method.

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.