It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

The only consistent people are the dead

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.