Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.

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.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

You can't do any better than your best.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.