Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends, " says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

You really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true.

That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows.

Food is fabulous, and having a good relationship with it will make you healthy and happy.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

My God...it can think.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.