By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

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.

To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Some people can carry a tune but they seem to stagger under the load.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.