I mentioned my observation that the world seems to be filling up with imbeciles. They explained to me that this is simply an affliction of age.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.