Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Still, the illusion of love had, in its time, led to stranger depravities.

If I ever said in grief or pride I tired of honest things I lied.

The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't afford.