Quotes by writer

"Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed."

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

"Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?"

"Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable."

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."

"A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories."

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."

"Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away."