Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.