Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Language disguises thought.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.

Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.