“With the utmost love and attention the man who walks must study and observe every smallest living thing, be it a child, a dog, a fly, a butterfly, a sparrow, a worm, a flower, a man, a house, a tre...”

“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”

“I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they do...”

“God goes with thoughtless people.”

“I feel how little it concerns me, everything thats called "the world," and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.”

“cuando se es joven hay que ser un cero a la izquierda, pues no existe nada ms perjudicial que destacar pronto, prematuramente, en cualquier cosa.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”

“The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.”

“The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but act...”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”