In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Ask the Creator to direct your thoughts, decisions and actions.

I've always said I'm a teacher at heart.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

My name is more important than myself.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.