Enlightenment begins with disillusionment, is fueled by the perceived benefit of change and is made permanent by the creation and protection of a new order in place of the old.

We played a good game. You lose and what do you do? You don't change a lot. It's unfortunate. First period, we maybe made one mistake and it goes in our net.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.