There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.