People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

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.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.

You know, you can only cram your beliefs down a young kid's throat for so long before he goes, "you know, the other side seems to be having a lot more fun."

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.