It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

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.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.