Everything to do with time is hideous.

When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Enchanted islands are hard to understand, ' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

We dare travel on unknown path.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in.

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

you will I trust find heaviness may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.