What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.
Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is.If you see dignity in anything, in fact--it doesn't have to be huma...
Skyscraper National Park
It's embarrassing to be human.
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do...
There is no why.
He told me off camera that he was despised by his neighbors for remembering when it was time to forget.
No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote. The
We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is...
We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat.
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.
The lieutenant-colonel realized for the first time what most people never realize about themselves--that he was not only a victim of outrageous fortune, but one of outrageous fortune's cruelest agents...
You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.
I wonder about turtles.
Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you.
Truly great poems never do, somehow.
The television cameras dollied and panned about him like curious, friendly dinosaurs, sniffing and peering.
They went Indian file. First came the scouts, clever, graceful, quiet. They had rifles. Next came the antitank gunner, clumsy and dense, warning Germans away with a Colt .45 automatic in one hand and...
Showing 81 to 100 of 224 results