I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.