The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.

If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

It’s not easy to be God.

When we go out knowing whose interests we are representing, people cannot oppose us because it is pointless to fight God, who lives in us

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

No insignificant person was ever born.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

I like people who like Plato.

Optimism is my best defense.

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.