Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

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.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

The more we know about each other the safer we all are.