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

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.