I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam. ' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet. . . When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words. . . . Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.