Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood..

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

Words are just words..

lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating..

You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student….

I tend to like things that already exist..

I don't like things that aren't true..

Only describe, don't explain..

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth..

Money cannot buy happiness..

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God..

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that..

That which comes slow comes solid..

I don’t predict a nonexisting future..

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that pe….

How do you create something unknown?.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself..

Those who live for one another learn that love is the bond of perfect unity..