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• There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum.
  At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become....
• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war.
  It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men....
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is.
  That is the smile: that what might not be, is. -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or no
  he ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there....
• All perfect republics are perfect nonsense. The craving to risk death is our last great perversion.
  We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? -- John Fowles, The Magu...
• You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat.
  If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will die with the rest of your body....
• The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble.
  They can never be solved but only out grown. -- C.G. Jung...