"The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people."

“I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.”

“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.”

“There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.”

“No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.”

“A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.”

“I am not what one calls a celebrity.”

“I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.”

“Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.”

Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307