Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

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.

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them

You always use that word "remember", ' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!