Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.