Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

Michael Flynn not exactly cut from that cloth. Someone who has very strong views about almost everything in the realm of national security and defense.

You never win any games you don't play.

I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.