To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.

... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks.

Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

I was a pretty bad person early in my life.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.