I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Pull yourself out of the dirt, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse and ride towards the sunset.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

And I always tried to be not a star. To be someone who people like to talk to.

My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.