One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Specialization is for insects.