Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?

The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.