Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.