All my enemies are self-appointed.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Specialisation is for insects!

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.