doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

What you need, is an Event, to remember for a lifetime.

You must want it, to chase for it.

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.

I think everything in life is a balance.

Freedom begins between the ears.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.