The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

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.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

In every bush lies a nest.

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

I love X-Games music.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.