The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Explanation is where the mind rests.

a detestable, viscous place populated by slugs

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

The world is God’s salvation.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.