The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.

You have no idea what you really are, " the Elder Wyrm went on, "or why you are special to the dragons of Talon.

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

A brave arm makes a short sword long.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Some things are better done than said.

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.