Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

It is dangerous to become useless to God

If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.

...chuck-full of error, masturbation and Jesus.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.

This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.