More Weight -Giles Corey-

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.