“All the rest is silenceOn the other side of the wall;And the silence ripeness,And the ripeness all.”

“That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”

“I have never, I think, wanted to 'belong' to a group whose interests were not mine, nor have I resented exclusion. Why should thet accept me? All I have ever asked is that others should go their way and let me go mine.”

“All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ”

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”

“I and the public knowWhat all schoolchildren learn,Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.”

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.”