You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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