High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.