Looking away is submissive. Looking [. . ] in the eye is a challenge.
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.
I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the election season I find to be distasteful. But for those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.
A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.