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

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.