The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.