Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

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.

Unlike the world that points out your flaws to ridicule you, when GOD point out your flaws, it's because He want to walk you out of it.

I want to tell him I love him

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.