“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!”

“Listen to the speeches, one after another telling the audience what it already knows, evoking applause with necessary cliches, no longer shocking anybody with the shocking facts of the war because you can become so jaded with horror that you develop an emotional callous.”

“You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

“Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.”