Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.