It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.