I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

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.

Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn't.

After all, I was once like you are, but being the right sort I got where I am.

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.