A classic is a book that remains in print

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

A classic is a book that remains in print

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.