God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.