Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

God didn’t make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.