A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Whether in Career or Business, those at the top of the ladder use their MIND to make money whilst those at the bottom use their energy and strength.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

You doubt because you love truth.

My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?