To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

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.

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all.

People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

Love is the end of sympathy.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

The best title of the [professing] church of God today, in my judgment, is 'Unbelieving Believers.'

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself