Old stories often turn out to be true.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

The Bible is not a tested hypothesis, it is not a theory but it is God's Breath.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.