Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.