When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.

If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.