How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.