It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the ends as my body careened down it to safety-- Careened. What an ugly word that was

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.