We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

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.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

If you want to have love, you have to open your heart and give love.

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and Day; the One and the Varied; the Eternal and the Evolving.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.