Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.