Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.

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

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.