Good-bye and hello, as always.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.