Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

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

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

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

Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.