What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

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