She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

A gun is not an argument.

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"