Fear has a smell, as love does.
There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
Luck always favors the comely.
He who does not like you will defame you in jest.
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.