Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.