I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.