There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.