Books are a narcotic.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.