For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.