Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

I know that I have a special stomach.