The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

A gift that cannot be given away ceases to be a gift. The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

I can imagine playing in America.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.