The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us.

Love your work and success is your next customer.

The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.