Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.