If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. that's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries. what's really important in life is always the things that are secondary.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Everything in life is a metaphor.