Quote #3827
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or...
Quote #12333
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
Quote #13173
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock,...
Quote #25965
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or...
Quote #11953
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
Quote #11299
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Quote #24598
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity,...
Quote #1854
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not...
Quote #19969
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Quote #32838
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that...