Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.