Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.