The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

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.

Out of all the things in life sometimes its the kindness you cant repay that really hurt.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.

Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine.