My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.

There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

There's a place this moment comes from, where it's made. Actually, it's like a big factory where they make moments, where they make realities, where they make infinities.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.