Art is a way to engage with the complexity of the world without reducing it.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The essence of great furniture lies in its ability to tell a story.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"A writer must be both a dreamer and a realist."

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the relative quantity of labor which is necessary for its production, and not on the greater or less compensation which is paid for that labor.