In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

Then all this earth shines like one house.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!