The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

We like lists because we don't want to die.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.