“Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.”

“...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.”

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”

“Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.”

“Intelligence is a moral category.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living ins...”

“Does truth have a moral?”

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”