History breaks down into images, not into stories.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.

Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

In one day, I got mistaken for three different actresses: Wendy Williams, Sherri Shepherd, and Star Jones.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.