Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations, ' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

...I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

I miss being a student, " said Abdul Wahid. "I miss the passionate discussions with my friends, and most of all the hours among the books.

Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story, ' said Ferguson.

At the mention of her name, my heart started beating faster. Dawn. Rusty. My muse.

You do not truly know yourself until you have learned to appreciate others.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

I always see those jeans with the stretchy front on pregnant women, and they look like the dreamiest thing ever.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male.