You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.