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

A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than he needed.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.