Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

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.

I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience.

What makes your brand stick and tick is your ability to make it memorable

People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

The potential for engaged learning is inversely proportionate to the knowability of the outcome.

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

Some people know me because of my music and come and see me in my concerts but you very rarely see me or hear me in press or TV or radio magazines.