Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.