By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.