To think is to say 'no.'

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.