[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

A secret is powerful when it is empty.