L'aube exalteé ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homme a cru voir!(And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe they've seen!)

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.

Strive to be value oriented rather than success oriented.

I'll be so quiet for you. Look like a child for you. Be like a shadow of a shadow Of a shadow for you.

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

Youth is no excuse for sloppiness.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.