Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

What is done can never be undone.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.