To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.