Learning is the art of ignoring.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Never give up! And write for yourself first and foremost.

Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver.

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.