Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced it is not the normal human condition. We shall be sorry to have abandoned a little too quickly the institutions that were set up by our parents and grandparents to protect themselves against a return of the bad old world. Because the bad old world can still come back to haunt you.
Israel today is bad for the Jews.
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.
There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.
Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.