Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.