"I've got no hair on my danglies."

"The mania for self-observation and self-admiration in literature and the view that a work is the more true and the more convincing, the more directly the author reveals himself in it, are part of the …"

"We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journ…"

"Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think."

"Transcript of "The Real State of the Union 2006"