I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

I do have trouble with titles.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.