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

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

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.