"Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life."

"The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustra…"

"Hate the world and all that is in it. Hate all peace that comes from the flesh. Renounce this life, so that you may be alive to God."

"Imagine that a team of neuroscientists has just unveiled a technology that lets a person remove all trace of some terrible experience from his brain. Under what conditions, if any, would you use it? W…"

"Go and tell that nasty, rude little princess that we've known each other for long enough and gabbed enough in ladies' rooms that she should skip the ho-hum royal routine and just pop over here and ask…"