O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.