The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever.

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

the real is coherent and probable because it is real, and not real because it is coherent...

Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

The sight, sound or even smell of a first love seems to burrow deep into the brain.