the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.

I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing.

Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.