What’s so great about feeling and dreaming?
We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight!
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this...
Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt.
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
The moment before he started was my favorite moment.
The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the sunken night sky, closed its heavy eyes. The prehistoric ant in Yankel's ring, which had lain motionless in the honey-colored amber since long bef...
The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering,
The best reason to think that there could be a better future is the fact that we know just how bad the future could be.
The ADA takes a conservative stand, leaving out many well-documented health benefits attributable to reducing the consumption of animal products. Here are the three key sentences from the summary of t...
Sea horses have complicated routines for courtship, and tend to mate under full moons, making musical sounds while doing so.
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
People are always mistaking something that looks good for something that feels good.
Our stories are so fundamental to us that it’s easy to forget that we choose them.
Our methodologies . . . have come more and more to resemble the methodology of mining. . . . This is sufficiently clear to many of us. What is not sufficiently clear, perhaps to any of us, is the exte...
Only a few months into our marriage, writes the grandfather, we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we nev...
Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.
Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.
My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.