Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

He who wears a mask cannot see within himself.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.