There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.