Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

Old saws have no teeth.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.