Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

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.

You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings.

I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

How do I not get so wrapped up in what I think needs to happen? Going with the flow is the way to do it.

The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.