Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

I am the worst judge of my books.

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.