“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
“Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.”
“I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.”
“I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other.”
“The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.”
“Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo”