“It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.”

“Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.”

“To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.”

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

“The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astu...”

“Im not good enough for Duke. Im good enough for you.”

“Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'loquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pense.”

“Quality, relevant content can't be spotted by an algorithm. You can't subscribe to it. You need people - actual human beings - to create or curate it.”

“The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particula...”

“Every living word that gives life was once without form.”

“In heart, mind, soul and spirit, we do not exist in a myriad of dissimilar forms. We are every possible form, which has existed and is yet to come. When we we enter a state of oneness, we get a sen...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”