Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

A divorce party--that's really better than a wedding party!

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

We have to solve the encryption problem. It is not easy.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.