The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?