(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” -- margaret case harriman

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.

Everything is going to change.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

You can divide my life into two.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.