The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

There is a cause/effect relationship between your investment in yourself and the future you have.

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me!

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.