 Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. |
| Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. |
| Our lives teach us who we are. |
| The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. |
| When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. |
| In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. |
| Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. |
| I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. |
| If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it. |
| Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. |
