There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.