To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

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.

There was no substitute for a post-coital cuddle.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.But th' shelf is th' main thing.

I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.