I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.

It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.