That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
You can't consume much if you sit still and read books
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.