He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

That's all you people care about, is money.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.