Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

I think when magic is dark enough, it can look like anything it wants.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.

For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Don't start something that you cannot finish.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.