Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Help only comes to those who ask for it.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.