It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.