How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Walk humbly with the Creator on earth.

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

No human beings are one-dimensional, and if they feel one-dimensional to you, it's because you don't know them.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.