The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable