Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

The more stitches, the less riches.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Nothing short of everything will really do.