"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken."

"If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!"

"I didn't want to mask variations; I didn't want to record a path. I wanted to get the paint out of the can …"

"I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there …"

"Philosopher of tragedy" by Thomas Hylland Eriksen in Norway Now"

"Evil is the conscious desire to produce suffering where suffering is not necessary"

"My head and the universe ache me."