What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence.

In its proper role, a number counts the missing words.

Unwritten words grow out of silence.

Many writers were better before they became famous.

There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.

Names do not write poems nor do they create work.

Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.