The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish.The fool is cured by “reason, ” “progress, ” alcohol, work.

In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the man who still harnesses an underground spring.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader’s soul.The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

He shrugged. 'I know you're the type''Type?''The type that doesn't let things go

When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

Personality, too, is destiny.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.