The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

Prepare, You lovers, to know Love a thing of moods: Not like hard life, of laws.

The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

I adore pretty things & witty words.

I didn't have the passion for athletics in that way, that there were other parts of me that felt under-served and that needed to be nurtured and needed my energy.

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.