It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't be surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.