The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

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's a tiring game resenting the scars and the fearful memories.

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.

My love is as a fever, longing still.