There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.