Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.

The best plans are always the simplest.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Another one of your quippy japes?

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.