Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

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.

Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers, " Ruth said."Into what?" Ezekiel asked.

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.

Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.