So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

My heart is breaking for a little love

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Socratic question: all plans? Some? Which ones? How do they do so?