“Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.”
“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”
“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
“The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”
“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”
“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp.”
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime.”
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.”