Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

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.

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

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.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Never despair.

I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.