For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.

But you’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

Jesus is the seat belt of the roller coaster ride that doesn't let me fall

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.