I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.