Infants are interesting only to their parents.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.