It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.

Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?

I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.

You are a special being

Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.