life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.