Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.