It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

We can compare a life without a goal to an equestrian on an obstinate horse: much movement but little headway

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

Anyone who's seen my specials knows I don't put out the same stuff twice.

Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

All law has its essence in causation.