Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

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.