I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.