It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.