It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

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.

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

I would have done just about anything for him.

At 50$ per barrel of oil we shall lose about three trillion rubles of budget income

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician.

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

I believe in God big time and I'm proud to say I believe in God.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.