Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.