When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.