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

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

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.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.