If you love language, it will love you back.
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.