Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

No artist tolerates reality.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.