I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich

Good is not good when better is expected.