Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

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