On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Your energy is louder than your words.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.