The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

I didn't grasp that desire and duty could rival each other, least of all that they most often did.

Our love is an adventurous melody, our souls forever as one.

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

There's no nobility in poverty.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.