The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.