My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.