An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. - Tom Stoppard

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.