“There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.”

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Why should things be easy to understand?

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

All variables are independent.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

Teamwork,” Koteks snarled, “is one word for it, yeah. What it really is is a way to avoid responsibility. It’s a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society.

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.

That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven’t learned a thing until you take action and use it.

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

If you really want to apologize to someone, then change your behavior. Thats the best apology.

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.