"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"

“We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.”

“He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.”

Source : "Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

“I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.”

“The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.”

“Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.”

Source : "Turf Wars". www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.

“I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.”

Source : "The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Grace finds relaxation in her gardens", January 1, 1981.

“Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.”

“Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.”