To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

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.

Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.

Jealousy has less to do with how a person feels towards you and more to do with how he feels about himeself. It is an unhealthy emotion rooted in insecurity.

Always look ahead with great hope and believe in timeless possibilities.

If you realise and accept your mistakes, faults and wrong doings, it is the exact way to recognising, getting and finding yourself, when it happens, you are a genius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.

Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.