After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Find your happiness in yourself.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.