The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.