His modesty amounts to deformity.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Genius is sorrow's child.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

That which costs little is less valued.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.