“The meaning of life is that it ends”
“I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .”
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
“Earth keeps turning but it never says why.”
“Writing fixes the evanescence of sound and holds it against death.”
“A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.”
“Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
“You can t build the road without walking it.”
“All the people of a land must be the leaders of freedom and libertarianism.”
“Be free-spirited. We can have our own point of view. We can even agree with each other s opposing views!”
“Democracy is meaningless without free media.”
“Only democracy will enhance the social knowledge of the people.”
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
“Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.”
“We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.”
“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person s life its true meaning.”
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.”