Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.

It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.