A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.