But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Like all former thinkers, I'm writing a book.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.