however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

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

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.