I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
God is a creator, not a law giver.
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.