His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

The unsaid rules every conversation.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.

I think the ultimate result of it is you can get inside the record.

There are rules for hiding in plain sight. The first rule, or at least the one that Sandor repeats most often, is “Don’t be stupid.” I’m about to break that rule by taking off my pants.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.