"The aim of science is not to open the door to everlasting truth, but to set a limit on everlasting error."

"The rope has been torn; a knot Can tie it again, but It’s been torn. Perhaps we’ll meet again, but You won’t find me In the place where we parted ways."

"What kind of times are these, when To talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?"

"He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy."

"I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better."

"I'm teaching all the time. When am I to learn?"

"In the dark times will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times."

"Sitting and sedition don't mix."

"Grub first, then ethics."

"Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there."

"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

"Every time you name yourself, you name someone else."

"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."

"It's what you do that makes your soul."

"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."

"In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can."

"A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul."

"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."

"The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes."

"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."

"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."