For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.