It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...

Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

At the bottom of the human well, there should always be a candle of compassion.

There are so many things to exploit man, but religion and patriotism are at the top of the list.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.

Do not have as friends harmful people, the wise person does not associate with the worst of people. Have as friends virtuous people, the wise person associates with the best of people.

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.