It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.