He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?