He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

If you want him to do it, you've got to change the picture of the world inside his head.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

You are dehydrated, " I said. "The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power completely to articulate it.

One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose!

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

We can't live in a place of fear.

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.