Richard Rorty

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.