Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Honor is decency without vanity.

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.