No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.