The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Science is a form of arrogance control.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

Most people don't have someone to believe in them.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.