...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

A child is your heart walking around outside your body

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.