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

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 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")

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.