But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as ‘reasonable' as we like to think they are.

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.