The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.