The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.

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

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

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

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Followers and friends cannot be with you in the grave but salvation will

A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in.

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.