The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.

What we are looking for [...] is an agent capable--simultaneously and almost instantaneously--of bringing about all of the following:-a global flood-wildfires across an area of 10 million km2-6 months...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Mirnin: Where's Shreve?

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

HAMM:Scoundrel! Why did you engender me?NAGG:I didn't know.HAMM:What? What didn't you know?NAGG:That it'd be you.(Pause.)

Dear Mr. Beard,On the radio last spring, President Roosevelt said that each and every one of us here on the home front has a battle to fight; We must keep our spirits up. I am doing my best, but in my...

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or pla...

Seems like we own the day! Now die like a good Christ!- Boniface de Monteferret, ON THE WALLS OF CHRISTAs Constantinople falls.

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability.

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalcul...

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of com...

People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit.