Love is the true condition of human life.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.