Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.