Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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.

The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

I've never had my heart broken.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.