We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

God pity the poor novelist.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.

Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.

When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody!

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!

This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast.