“Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.”

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

“Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological”

“Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.”

“Donald Trump is a pathological liar.”

“The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.”

“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”

“The public…demands certainties…But there are no certainties.”

“At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.”

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face.”