The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
. . . being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.
I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.