The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

those who fail to plan, plan to fail!

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'