From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.