The work of memory collapses time.

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.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

If your plan is not working, pivot. If it is working, do more of it!

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

No! I don't feel any pressure right now!

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.