The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.