One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to stand still - and they obeyed.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted.

What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable.