The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.