The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

There are no such things as book hoarders, only aspiring librarians

The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

Let them eat cake.

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Find yourself by losing yourself for others.