“I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.”

“To be a serviceable man has always seemed to me something quite repulsive.”

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.”

“To know something is to make this something that I know myself; but to avail myself of it, to dominate it, it has to remain distinct from myself.”

“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process…”

“Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.”

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

“Once you start cancelling, there's always something which is not quite right.”