The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.