Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.