Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great.

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

I loved horror since I was a kid.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.