The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.