Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

I don't think fundamentally we should ban him [Donald Trump], I don't think we can go around doing that.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!

I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.