The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

I've always been drawn to characters who are complex and flawed, because that's what makes them human.