An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.