...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right and always sound.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

Definitions create conditions.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

"What's up?" "I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

Be happy. Talk happiness.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.