In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

Find your truth, live your truth.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.