“Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important”

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Forgive me also that I didn’t fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Study the world’s skin before you set out to look for its heart.

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.