“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
“The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.”
“Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
“Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.”
“It is not in space that I must seek my human dignity, but in the ordering of my thought. It will do me no good to own land. Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck; through thought I grasp it.”