Mad People = People Who Stand Alone

Compassion Is An Unstable Emotion. It Needs To Be Translated Into Action, Or It Withers.

A Writer, I Think, Is Someone Who Pays Attention To The World.

Al Forms Of Consensus About ''great'' Books And ''perennial'' Problems, Once Stabilized, Tend To Deteriorate Eventually Into Something Philistine. The Real Life Of The Mind Is Always At The Frontiers Of ''what Is Already Known.'' Those Great Books Don't Only Need Custodians And Transmitters. To Stay Alive, They Also Need Adversaries. The Most Interesting Ideas Are Heresies.

All Possibility Of Understanding Is Rooted In The Ability To Say No.

The Only Interesting Ideas Are Heresies