Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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.