The world began in hazard and will end in it.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.