If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

My holy of holies is the human body.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.