Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.