Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

The unfed mind devours itself.