To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.