What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at it centre, nor even the smooth functioning of the institutions they house. At its core, a civilization is the texts that are taught in its schools, le...
May the sunshine ever greet you and sorrows flow away, May the knowledge flow within you and darkness fade away.
We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think o...
Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?
Patch leaned back against the booth and arched his eyebrows at me. The gesture said it all: Pay up. "You got lucky," I said. "I'm about to lucky.
But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can b...
Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and a...
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone.
Carmen will always be free.
For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.
The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.
When within yourself you find the road, the right road will open.
From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
Good is not always good.
With your goal you make the one.
It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.
