… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Death’s favorites don’t die.

What a long strange trip it's been.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

In spiritual matters we remain beginners.

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.