Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.