It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Life is always at some turning point.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

It’s common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

I thought I was in love once and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark.