There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynastyโand, by which definition, a philosopherโdreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.