Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Law is the ultimate science.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.