If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.