Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.