Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

Question your tea spoons.

Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.