Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.