Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.