silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

Doubt is a delusion.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

We need a return to transparency and a system of checks and balances, to a president who respects Congress' role of oversight and accountability.

Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure.

I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

We have to fight for the freedom to be stupid, and smoking is one of the best ways to fight for your freedom, to be just as stupid as you can be.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.