History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

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.

If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

I've never been much of a joiner.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.