A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.