Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

As cute as baby clothes are... I try to buy less.

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago.

The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.

That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.