Now is the age of anxiety.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.