“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The essential doesn’t change.

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

As one tale ends, so another begins.

Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Peace, like charity, begins at home.