You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.

He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.