“Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.”

“Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves.”

“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.”

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.”

“Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.”

“What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?”

“if you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right”