Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.