We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

None of us know our real names.

Writing is a worthwhile work.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

I'm fully aware that some of the stuff I write is going to offend people or p*ss them off. They should be fully aware that I don't really care.

The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.