Sam and Diane can't help laughing at each other's jokes.

Never begin with 'My work…'.

'A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.'

Philosophers mustn't mistake pieties for truths.

Discourses!

Philosophers talk all the time about 'problems'. But I can't remember the last time I heard some philosophers talking like they were trying to solve a problem.

—Grab the ball, launch it way over the fence.

Something about Rilke can make you want to bully him; at least push him around a little, to toughen him up.

Is it important that any talk of 'fantasy' is mostly confined to Part Four of The Claim of Reason? The exception is near the end—and only the end—of the diagnosis of skepticism about the external world.