There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.

She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.