He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

I’m not interested in what people think about me. I’m not Michael Schumacher.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.