...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.