In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause.

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.

When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about he who admires him?

There has been only one Christmas -- the rest are anniversaries.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

God isn't who we hope He is. God is who His word says He is.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.