Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.