The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.