Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

Reading is solitude.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

On the canvas of life, with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.

...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.

..he was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

Why not believe in miracles, create them, invite them for dinner, and offer them a place to stay every single day? Just because we have not doesn’t mean we cannot.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.