Every man at three years old is half his height

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Good writing comes from good talent.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.