Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.