Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

You can't expect anything to be handed to you. And I learned that.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

A bull in just about any shop is gonna be a mess.