I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.