... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.