People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Once there was a race, quite unlike the human race - quite. I have no way of describing to you what they looked like or how they lived, but they had one characteristic you can understand: they were creative. The creating and enjoying of works of art was their occupation and their reason for being.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.

Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.