All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

My tiny scary friend is coming

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.

Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

I can connect anything to anything.

You were right,” she said. “You were always right, about everything. And I will always love you, Sam. Forever.