One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.