I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

I never worked in an office in my life.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

Why make plans? The sun might well go out tomorrow.