There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.