Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one’s mediocrity at the same time.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.
Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
True wit has a grave intention.
In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.
City wits, country humorists.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Sometimes “Yes” is rhetoric enough.
Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.
God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.
I know God exits, but I don’t know where.
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
I resist change even as I call for it.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
The young are amazed when they suffer.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.