When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.