If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.