All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time.
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.