Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.