Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?