Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much for a poem?

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.