I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

William Shakespeare

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

Paul Krugman

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

Oscar Nunez

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

Paul Murray

Let us cultivate our garden.

Voltaire

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

The moments of perfect pleasure in Johnson's songs, and the beauty of those songs, remind one that it is not the simple presence of evil that is unbearable; what is unbearable is the impossibility of reconciling the facts of evil with the beauty of the world.

Greil Marcus

The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people.

Mao Tse Tung

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Oscar Wilde