In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.

...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Nothing brings closure to a campaign like opening it up again.

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.