Joy and sadness come by turns.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.