Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

Unless we can psychologically accommodate change, we ourselves begin to die, inwardly. What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.