But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.