If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.
Fair are the daughters of men, and fairest are those who read.
Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.
A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx
Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we’ve started invoking national security and other shibboleths.
There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.
Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.
A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time’s avatar, colorizing t...
You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjo...
Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.
If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.
I wanted a real diary, but there wasn't time to visit a stationery store, so instead I ran down to Thrift Drug and got you. According to your cover, you're an 'Official Popeye the Sailor Spiral-Bound...
Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.
At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.
All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.
WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL’S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.
The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibl...
Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,