The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.

I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

I drink to keep body and soul apart.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.