To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

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.

Words will change your future

God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

I wouldnt want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

This is how you play tennis without the net

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!