If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.