It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.