Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

A trap, like a goodstory, needs to hint at greater things without revealing themuntil the prey is snared.

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

You are separate from the universe, therefore you experience it.

Facts themselves do not give knowledge

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.