Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.