“You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.”

“If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.” Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else’s success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own.”

“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”

“The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper”

“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”