The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

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.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.

I always carry multipurpose products in my handbag.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.