Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder!

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

Oh, that dog! Ever hear of a German Shepherd that bites its nails? Barks with a lisp? You say, "Attack!" And he has one. All he does is piddle. He's nothing but a fur-covered kidney that barks.

Quality tends to fan out like waves.