I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...

Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss, The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

One does not know where love will take you.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.