Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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.

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.