One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.