Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness