We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Morality, when formal, devours.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

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