Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

We pick our friends not only because they are kind and enjoyable company, but also, perhaps more importantly, because they understand us for who we think we are.

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands, ' knew Schopenhauer.

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry and what we perceive is how we live.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.