At times I think and at times I am.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

—Paul Valéry

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

—Paul Valéry

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

—Paul Valéry

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

—Paul Valéry

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

—Paul Valéry

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

—H. Mumford Jones

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

—Meister Eckhart

If you have a gun, you can go out and shoot one, two, three, five people. But if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

—Ambrose Bierce

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

—Philip K. Dick