Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.