Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.