Tragedy is the highest form of art.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.