We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

...we need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

Quite half of the human race was in tears.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.