Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

I have to admit. Saying goodbye—leaving Bonnie. Was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my entire life. It actually hurt…

…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.

I'm living the dream.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.

It is deeply pejorative to call someone a "climate change denier". This is because it is a phrase designedly reminiscent of the idea of Holocaust Denial.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.