These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.