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.

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.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.