We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.