In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays

Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

He gave me a look sure to put frost on anyone's pumpkin.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.