A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

I worry that independence will never feel safe again.

Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.

Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

It's not a party unless I'm cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.