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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.

In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Most people have learned to live in the moment.