it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a message? Why, naturally, when, upon one set of substitutions, sense emerges like the outline under a rubbing; when a single tentative construal leads to several; when all the sullen letters of the code cry TEAM! after YEA! has been, by several hands, uncovered.

The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.