Art must not serve might.

It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.