If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

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