Who said “The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to…”?

“America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”

“The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.”

“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”

“To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.”

“I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”

“Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.”

“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”

“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”

“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”