"Of all things which men do or make here below by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books."

"Being a disease of self-consciousness — insomnia perhaps inevitably plagues a disproportionately high number of writers."

"He was bred to no profession," says Emerson ;"he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted..."

"Those who have read both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche are often struck by the resemblance not only between many of their ideas"

[Essay] "Chekhov possessed a practical wisdom that enabled him to care for those he loved and to help others."

"Schopenhauer’s philosophy reveals a profound psychology of saintliness, of inner resignation, true composure, true desirelessness."

"Artistic creativity is the vehicle for the transformation of the sorrows of the world into beauty, truth and art."

"The meaning of his aloneness is that, as bringer of light or changer of consciousness, Endymion must overcome darkness."

"Jaspers poses the ancient and Renaissance question of the relationship between diseased psyche and creativity."

"The Odyssey describes a spiritual quest from multiplicity and Strife back to unity and Love."

"Tolstoy called Chekhov, ­­and rightly so, "an artist of life". (...)"

"Hamlet's mind," the critic says, "is constantly occupied with the world within, and abstracted from the world without."