The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.