Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.