Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.