Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

A writer observes you far sharply than others and therefore you find your traits in a book.

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

My statements are just a statement of fact.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.