If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.