In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

You cannot live with a paw in each world.

It's not about what you accomplish - it's about what you take away from your experiences and how you handle them.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.