Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

My word stinkof blood and goreof sleepless nightsof invisible demonsof razors and knivesof slashed wristsMy words - they stink.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

We can't defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.