Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.