The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .