He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.