No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

I effortlessly let go of my density and dance forward into infinite bliss.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold.

I don't want riders who work physically hard. Work by thinking.

God gave you a gift and he deserves a return on his investment.