First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.