The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

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

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

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.

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.

The eyes get in the way of the mind.