Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.