The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

All isms end in fascism.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

Love is blind but not deaf.

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

It is best to live life gulping down one’s anxiety and flying higher than anybody else.

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.