In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

There are people who think everything is a conspiracy and I think they're crazy.

Vegas will always be Vegas.

When you have worked with people all day who have so little and struggle to make it stretch, who live outside the rarefied, you are humbled.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.