There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.