You can always count on God to do nothing.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

If knock the door once and it remains lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.