Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.