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Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage point. Needless to say, a throne is not the best place from which to view...

Let the dust take me when the adventure's done and I shall make the dust glitter for all eternity with my marvelous fury.

…the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new...

On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

The planet Venus, a circle of silver in a green sky, pierced the edge of the evening while the wintry woods darkened about me and in the stillness the regular sound of my footsteps striking the...

The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.

There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and allow us to glimpse eternity. And philosophy,...

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one.

The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same...

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere...

Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of...

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those "liberals" who prefer to improve the...

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and...

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist...

How hungrily we read about ourselves!

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil...

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.

Never offend an enemy in a small way.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of...

If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within...