However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.