It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.