A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

God primes the pump of obligation.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

All women are beautiful

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

I don't think anyone's ever thought I was a drug dealer.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

ʺWhy,ʺ he began slowly, ʺis Victor Dashkov joining us?ʺ ʺWell, itʹs kind of a funny story . . .ʺ

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain