"Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior."

"The last Christian died on the cross."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."

"Every talent must be paid for. One pays for it always, whether one has it or not, with a long and painful struggle."