"The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors."

“Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.”

“What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.”

“All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.”

“When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.”

Source : Mark Richardson (2008). “Zen and Now”, p.104, Vintage

“I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.”

Source : Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.5

“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.”

“On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.”

“There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.”