The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

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.

Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.