Genius is childhood recovered at will

Curiosity is insubordination in it's purest form

An honorable human relationship - that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" - is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.  It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.  It is important to do this because in so doing we do justice to our own complexity.  It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.