The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

If God lived on earth,” goes a sardonic Yiddish saying, “people would knock out all His windows.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man’s magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter...

Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games – but not with pleasure.

Extremists think ‘communication’ means agreeing with them.

If at first you don’t succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.