Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.