Guilt is like a bag of bricks. All you have to do is set it down.
It requires indeed some courage to undertake a labor of such far-reaching extent.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
The imagination is the most subversive of human faculties.