There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

May the Heavens be open to your prayers.

And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

All day long you see those commercials: 'Here's Your Brain, Just Say No'...and the next commercial is: 'This Bud's For You.'

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

I'm trying to be among the elite night after night, year after year. I just want to be the best ... and I love winning.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.