The door to the invisible must be visible.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

She lit wildfires inside my soul and fanned them with hurricanes.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.