Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.