You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.

What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.