Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.

Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

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

And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.