Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I only drink to make other people seem interesting.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

The mistakes are all there waiting to be made.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

California, the department store state.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.