The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.