It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

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.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

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.