There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.

Community in the American university is paradoxically a private and individual decision.

When we . . . read and study the scriptures, benefits and blessings of many kinds come to us. This is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

The use of encrypted communication and data storage to shield terrorist coordination from intelligence and law-enforcement authorities is known as 'going dark.'

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

The accountability rests with me.

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.