The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.

I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.