I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Good music always defeats bad luck

The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.