When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

Life is a process of one goneness after another.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.