You can sow the seeds of distrust everywhere, and lose yourself in an overgrown field.

You know what it takes to teach philosophy here? You have to lie. You have to fling meaningless words as fast as you can at young people, and brood when you can't answer, and make up nonsense and ascribe it to the old Stoics.

You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!""Permission denied.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

The disparity between outward appearances and inner disposition had disturbed me all my life.

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.

Don’t cling to reason so desperately in a world of so many horrid contradictions

I reach now for a victim who is not easy for me to overcome: my own past. Perhaps this victim will flee from me with a speed that equals my own. Whatever, I seek now a victim that I have never faced. And there is the thrill of the hunt in it, what the modern world calls investigation.