And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

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

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

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.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

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.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.