People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Not all events are stories.

All personal god, yours or mine, are false. Unto existence nothing but an infinite oneness walks.

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.