There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimetre), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.