The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.