I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Science asymptotically approaches reality.

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.