Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

The only consistent people are the dead

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.