The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

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

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.