It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

Sex is a slotmachine.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among the merchants and moneychangers of this godforsaken country... You better slip me the dough.