No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.