I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.