The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

The most profitable way to live this life is to trust no soul.

Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.

their is no better job elsewhere than serving humanity

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

I'm definitely not a nerd.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.