What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.