The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.