...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.

The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.