The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

I don’t need luck, I make my own.

To write is to resist.

Then I had religion, then I had a vision. I could not turn from their revel in derision. Then I saw the Congo creeping through the black, cutting through the forest with a golden track。

The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit, / Si bleu, si calme!

Memory is a kind of accomplishment, a sort of renewal even.