Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.