Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

The British are absolutely hung up on class, and whenever they start to really - class for the English is like sex for Americans: They start to shake all over when the subject comes up.