It can take a surprisingly long time to get from one part of my mind to another.

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.