Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

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.

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

Big results require big ambitions.

What I enjoy the most about all this is the traveling. I love that my job allows me to travel all over the world.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

If you had two pair of jeans, four shirts, you were cool if you had a couple pair of kicks that were fresh. That was it. That's how it started.