The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Thought is free.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The future ain't what it used to be.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.