Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
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.
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You can't consume much if you sit still and read books
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.