It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!

Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.

You don't think your way back to joy

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

Everything beautiful that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.

They terrify lest they should fear.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.