If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty. In… more »

You must listen...without free will...true, pain dies out...but so does evolution. Without struggle...without the drive to better oneself, there is no art, no music...no courage...no revolution. No love. All that remains is ignorant bliss...until… more »

The past! The past! Do we stride before it, trailing it behind? No. It pushes us inexorably forward, like a glacier, into the present. from “Beginner’s Greek” more »

I’m reading “High Fidelity” by Nick Hornby. It’s about a record store owner that was recently dumped. I especially enjoyed the following paragraph: “Have you got any soul?” a woman asks the next afternoon. That… more »

I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – Too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell… more »