The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.