We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

My language is the sum total of myself.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

There's no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things.

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Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows how I like my stuff folded and put away into drawers.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.